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HIV scare fuels desire for minors
The DB Marg police just skimmed the huge racket in trafficking minors when they rescued three girls, aged 14, 16 and 17, from a brothel in Grant Road on March 27.
The police said minors are in great demand in the flesh trade because many "customers" think girls are free of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), particularly HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
Dayanand Kamath, for DNA. -
The War on AIDS: Where are we?
"Bella detesta matribus," or "Wars are the dread of mothers," is one of many famous quotes from the Roman poet Horace. This pronouncement has certainly been proved true in Bogor, an hour's drive from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, where a very different war from the ones waged with spears and catapults is being fought.
Rico Gustav, Indonesia (source: sea-aids@eforums.healthdev.org) -
CCDS Workshop: ‘Reporting on HIV/AIDS’
Open Space, the civil society outreach initiative of the Centre for Communication and Development Studies, CCDS, Pune (www.ccds.in), announces a two-day workshop on 'REPORTING ON HIV/AIDS' to be held in Pune in early June. The workshop is open to young reporters / correspondents in the print, audiovisual and internet media in Maharashtra and Goa who write or report on health issues and would like to develop perspectives to report accurately on HIV/AIDS. Young and mid-career journalists from district towns are encouraged to apply. -
Globally, over 2.1m kids under 15 have AIDS: UN
NEW DELHI: Over 2.1 million children below 15 years are living with HIV globally, most of them infected before their birth, during delivery or while being breastfed.
While around 4.2 lakh children were newly infected in 2007, an estimated 2.9 lakh children under 15 years died from AIDS the same year. Young people, aged 15-24, accounted for about 40% of new HIV infections in 2007.
Kounteya Sinha, from Times of India. -
Film Screening & Discussion, 8 April 2008, Open Space Pune
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 4pm-7pm, at Open Space Pune
Open Space invites you to a screening of 4 documentary films which address very human problems around HIV/AIDS such as stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), the need for peer education about the disease, the need for legislative action against discrimination of PLHIV and the need for legislation to protect the rights of PLHIV. The screenings will be followed by a discussion moderated by Hans Billimoria (Project Coordinator HIV/AIDS, Deep Griha Society) and Rama Sarode (Human Rights Lawyer, Pathfinder Pune) along with interaction with members of the NMP+ support group. -
Cops clueless about helping PLHIV
NAGPUR: Sitabuldi police have little idea how to better the lot of the widow and her eight-year-old daughter, both HIV positive, currently sheltered at a guest house of an NGO near Maharajbaugh.
Soumittra S Bose, for Times of India. -
Nearly 1000 people die of TB in India every day
New Delhi: Nearly a 1000 people die of Tuberculosis in India every day which is more than the number of deaths caused by Malaria, HIV and Hepatitis combined.
Ginny Narula for IBN Live. -
The painted girls
Vishwas Kulkarni meets with a troupe of prostitutes, who may not be auditioned for a Chandni Bar, but have a growing fan base for their dramatics nonetheless...
Vishwas Kulkarni, for Mumbai Mirror. -
Soon, law to protect HIV+ patients from bias
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Denying patients suffering from HIV their right to work and any discrimination in their treatment could soon lead to jail terms.
The health ministry plans to table in the long-awaited AIDS anti-discrimination bill in the coming monsoon session of Parliament. The Bill seeks to prohibit any social or financial discrimination against those affected by the virus.
From Times of India.
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